Interesting Revelations:Where I Have Grown

I used to praise Chaim Weizzman and Theodore Herzl as great people. I absolutely do not anymore.

Question

Am I a sentimentalist?

The 80s were such a great decade...I ran across this song that brought back sooo many memories....

The truth about Roni, she’s a sweet little girl
You could treat her nice real and hold her tight
Only tenderonis can give special love
A special kind of love that makes you feel good inside

If you believe in love and all that it can do for you
Give it a chance, girl, you’ll find romance
And if you find a tenderoni that is right for you
Make it official, give her your love

My heart (Woo) belongs to tenderoni (She’s my only love)
She’s my only love (My only heart, baby)
My heart (Yeah) belongs to tenderoni (She’s my only love)
She’s my only love

The truth about Roni, she’s always on the phone
Talkin’ to her homeboy, wishin’ they were home alone, ooh
She send you lovely letters with the smell of sweet perfume
This is what a real tenderoni likes to do to you

And if you believe in love and all that it can do for you
Give it a chance, girl, you’ll find romance
And if you find a tenderoni that is right for you
Make it official, give her your love, ooh, yeah

My heart belongs to tenderoni (She’s my only love)
She’s my only love (My only heart)
My heart belongs to tenderoni (She’s my only love)
She’s my only love

The truth about Roni, she’s a sweet ol’ girl
About the sweetest little girl in the whole wide world
She’ll make the toughest homeboy fall deep in love
Said once you had a Roni you will never give her up
She’s a special kind of girl that makes her daddy feel proud
You know the kinda girl that stands out in crowds
Found a tenderoni and the Roni is so right
I think I’m gonna love her for the rest of my life

If you believe in love and all that it can do for you
And if you find a tenderoni that is right for you
Make it official, give her your love, ooh, yeah

My heart belongs to tenderoni (She’s my only lover)
She’s my only love (My only heart)
My heart belongs to tenderoni (She’s my only love)
She’s my only love

The truth about Roni, she’s a sweet ol’ girl
About the sweetest little girl in the whole wide world
She’ll make the toughest homeboy fall deep in love
Said once you had a Roni you will never give her up
She’s a special kind of girl that makes her daddy feel proud
You know the kinda girl that stands out in crowds
Found a tenderoni and the Roni is so right
I think I’m gonna love her for the rest of my life

My heart belongs to tenderoni
She’s my only love (My only heart)
My heart belongs to tenderoni (She’s my only love)
She’s my only love

The truth about Roni, she’s a sweet ol’ girl
About the sweetest little girl in the whole wide world
She’ll make the toughest homeboy fall deep in love
Said once you had a Roni you will never give her up
She’s a special kind of girl that makes her daddy feel proud
You know the kinda girl that stands out in crowds
Found a tenderoni and the Roni is so right
I think I’m gonna love her for the rest of my life

My heart belongs to tenderoni
She’s my only love

I'm The Greatest Star

I have 36 expressions
Sweet as pie and tough as leather
And that's six expressions more
Than all them Barrymores put together
Instead of just kicking me why don't they give me a lift
Well, it must me a plot
'Cause they're scared that I got such a gift
Well I'm miffed
'Cause I'm the greatest star
I am by far
But no one knows it
Wait, they're gonna hear a voice
A silver flute
There'll cheer each toot
( Yeah, she's terrific!)
When I expose it!
Now can't you see to look at me
That I'm a natural Camille
As Camille I just feel, I have so much to offer
(Hey listen kid I know I'd be divine because ...)
I'm a natural cougher
[couching sounds]
Some ain't got it, not a lump
I'm a great big clump of talent!
Laugh, they'll bend in half
(Did you ever hear that story about the traveling salesman?)
A thousand jokes
(Stick around for the chokes)
A thousand faces, I reiterate
When you're gifted
Than you're gifted
These are facts I got no ax to grind
He, what are you blind?
In all the world so far, I'm the greatest star
No autographs please
[spoken]
Do you thing beautiful girls are gonna stay in style forever
What if I say not, any minute now there' gonna be out
Finished than it'll be my turn
[sung]
Who is the pip with pizezz?
Who is all ginger and jazz?
Who is as glamorous as?
Who's an American beauty rose,
With an American beauty nose,
And ten American beauty toes,
Eyes on the target and wham
One shot one gunshot and bam?
He mister Keeney here I am

I'm the greatest star
I am by far but no one knows it!
That's why I was born
I blow my horn
Till someone blows it
I'll light up like a light
Right up like a light
I'll flicker, then flare up, ah, ah!
All the world's gonna stare up
Looking down you'll never see me
Try the sky 'cause that'll be me!
I can make them cry
I can make them sigh
Some day they'll clamor for my drama
Have you guessed yet, who's the best yet?
If you ain't I'll tell you one more time
You bet yer last dime
In all of the world so far
I am the greatest, greatest star!

Is NPR Absolutely Crazy?

NPR is running this story about the advantages of Global Warming in that now the Northwest Passage has become warm enough that sailors can make it through in six weeks time, in essence making an easier route to Asia. Capitalism can prosper while the world dies...what a wonderful thing!

Just moments ago I started thinking about my Cousin Slim, my grandmother's cousin, and how I used to ride in the back of his truck when I was a little boy, when we first moved to Alabama. He prepared the best deer meat. I remember many times going to his house with my mother and grandmother. Wonderiful time, blessed experience.

I hope that I am open to gain new insight and vision every day.

I absolutely realize how very blessed I am.

blackademic has a greatpost concerning the demonizing of the young woman who was raped at Duke and the racial lenses through which it is being percieved by those on the Right.

Bette Midler is a lesbian?

Happy Belated Birthday Barbra! 4/24/42!

My blog had a bug which made it loose everything. I wonder what kind of bug it was.

Today I so felt like climbing a tree.

I just saw two great films this week, Their Eyes Were Watching God and Goodnight and Good Luck. Great films!

There's A New Day Comin'

From Their Eyes Were Watchin' God(Oprah & Halle Berry)

There's a new day comin'
Everything's gon' be turning over
Everything's gon' be turning over
Where You gon' be when it comes?

There's a new day comin?
Everything's gon' be turning over
Everything's gon be turning over
Where You gon be when it comes?

For far too many years
I been marching singing and talking
doing things I thought would make me free
While people half way around the world
they been fighting and dying and bleeding
now it comes come that they are gonna be

There's a New World Comin'
Everything's gon be turning over
Everything's gon be turning over
Where you gon be when it comes?

A Piece of Sky

Barbra

Tell me where
Where is it written
What it is I’m meant to be?
That I can’t dare...

It all began the day I found
That from my window
I could only see
A piece of sky.
I stepped outside and looked around,
I never dreamed it was so wide
Or even half as high.

The time had come
(papa, can you hear me? )
To try my wings
(papa, are you near me? )
And even thought it seemed at any moment I could fall,
I felt the most
(papa, can you see me? )
Amazing things,
(can you understand me? )
The things you can’t imagine
If you’ve never flown at all.

Though it’s safer to stay on the ground,
Sometimes where danger lies
There the sweetest of pleasures are found.
No matter where I go-
There’ll be mem’ries that tug at my sleeve
But there will also be
More to question yet more to believe.

(oh tell me where-
Where is the someone who will turn to look at me
And want to sahre
My ev’ry sweet-imagined possibility? )

The more I live - the more I learn.
The more I learn - the more I realize
The less I know.
Each step I take-
(papa, I’ve a voice now!)
Each page I turn-
(papa, I’ve a choice now!)
Each mile I travel only means
The more I have to go.
What’s wrong with wanting more?
If you can fly - then soar!
With all there is - why settle for
Just a piece of sky?

Papa, I can hear you...
Papa, I can see you...
Papa, I can feel you...
Papa, watch me fly!

I think there needs to be more public discourse on the effect of Hurricane Katrina on the Black psyche collectively.

The women of South Africa should collectively learn how to castrate.